Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dwelling in the Kremlin, got no such spiritual uplift from the pact. Russia sent a formal protest to each of the sponsoring nations, denouncing the treaty as an unfriendly, aggressive act. To their separate notes of protest, the Russians got one brisk reply, issued by all twelve-the first joint action of the North Atlantic nations. Said the foreign ministers to the Kremlin: "The text of the treaty itself is the best answer to such misrepresentations and allegations...
Though he had asked for a two-year extension and a stiffening of federal rent control, Truman hailed the new, 15-month local option bill as a triumph of "the joint efforts of the Congress and the Administration." The National Association of Real Estate Boards, in equally strange fashion, publicly praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment...
...words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought." Time to Breathe. ECA's most spectacular birthday present was the North Atlantic pact; it marked the flowering of economic cooperation into a joint plan of Western defense against Communist aggression. As Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year EGA has done more for European unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years." The finest birthday testimonials came from the people EGA had succored. Eighteen months...
...outstanding German policy issues are: 1) the constitution for a West German government; 2) the relationship of Britain, France and the U.S. in Germany and the occupation statute which would govern their joint relationship with the West German government...
Line of Duty. In Jacksonville, Judge Edwin L. Jones fined Nightclub Bouncer W. W. Standfield $350, ruled that Standfield had a right to toss a customer out of the joint, but that shooting him in the leg was going...